North Korea Gets Aid?

Foxnews is reporting that North Korea is receiving large amounts of aid from the U.N. They raise a very important question that demands answers: Who is benefiting from the aid sent to N. Korea?

I have a better question: Why are we sending aid to North Korea? What has the Kim Jong Il regime shown besides defiance. He does not listen to or obey any of the sanctions set against him and his country. I say "we" in my question because the United States is country that provides the most financial support to the United Nations. American tax payers are having their hard earned dollars sent to support rouge nations like North Korea.

"Is North Korea's dictatorial regime quietly profiting from U.N. emergency food supplies delivered to its starving people, even as the regime squeezes those deliveries down to a trickle?

Documents produced by the World Food Program, the U.N.'s flagship relief agency, outlining its current emergency operations in the insular communist state, raise a number of touchy questions about the financing and logistics of the effort, which was originally intended to feed some 6.2 million of North Korea's most vulnerable people, but which is currently providing limited rations only to 1.33 million.

The $500 million program was meant to run from September, 1, 2008 to November 31, 2009, to deliver nearly 630,000 tons of food aid to North Korea at a time when it is suffering from severe flood damage and fertilizer shortages that have led to local food price increases.

Currently, WFP says that only $75.4 million worth of food aid has been delivered under the emergency program, as international donors have recoiled at the Kim Jong Il regime's recent nuclear detonation and provocative missile launchings toward Japan and Hawaii.

WFP emergency relief program documents obtained by FOX News show that from the outset the food agency planned to pay extraordinarily high transportation costs for sending relief supplies to North Korea from around the world--about a dollar for every two dollar's worth of food aid shipped into the country under the program."

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